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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning enable students in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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